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Laura Robson to face Caroline Wozniacki in French Open first round
Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros.Robson has never won a main draw match in Paris but has developed a welcome habit of pulling off big wins at grand slams, while 10th seed Wozniacki is in the midst of a terrible run that has seen her lose four straight matches on clay.Among the other British players, Elena Baltacha will play Marina Erakovic of New Zealand while Heather Watson, who returns to ...
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Frances Areva says one dead 14 wounded in Niger twin bombings
French nuclear reactor producer Areva said one was killed and 14 wounded after a car bombing struck its plant in northern Niger on early Thursday morning. "AREVA has learned with the deepest emotion of the death of one of the injured victims during the attack on the site of Somair" at Arlit, the French nuclear company said in the statement, while confirming that 14 people were ...
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Video game lets angry French workers kill Lakshmi Mittal on screen
Lakshmi Mittal does not seem to be the most popular man in France. And the French have found an innovative way to vent their anger against him. A ...
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Sharapova Gets Korean Test at French Open
MOSCOW, May 24 (R-Sport) – Maria Sharapova will start the defense of her French Open title against world No. 42 Hsieh Su-Wei of Taipei, with a possible semifinal against Victoria Azarenka, Friday's draw revealed. Sharapova and Hsieh have encountered only once, in the third round at last year’s Wimbledon, when the Russian won in straight sets. The world No. 2 has a possible ...
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French president defends African military intervention after attacks in Niger
PARIS - France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in Mali. Francois Hollande, in a sweeping speech Friday on this nuclear-armed country's military doctrine, said, "We will stay in Mali and around Mali because we haven't finished ...
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Gloom over French manufacturers lifts in May survey
French manufacturers turned sharply brighter about their business prospects in May because activity was unexpectedly buoyant and orders were picking up, official survey data showed on Friday. The French business climate has been deeply gloomy in line with the overall performance of the economy. But the latest figures from the national statistics ...
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Tomic draws Hanescu in Paris
Australian number one Bernard Tomic will face Romania's Victor Hanescu in the first round of the French Open, starting Sunday.Tomic got the only favourable draw amongst the Aussie chances in the men's singles at Roland Garros, with number two Marinko Matosevic drawing fourth seed David Ferrer and veteran Lleyton Hewitt getting French 15th seed Gilles Simon.Tomic has had a controversial ...
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Easyjet changes cabin bag policy
BUDGET airline easyJet is introducing a new hand luggage policy in a bid to ease over-crowded overhead lockers. From July 2 passengers may be obliged to put certain sizes of hand baggage in the ...
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Report France backs off caps on CEO pay
PARIS — France's finance minister says the government is no longer planning to cap executives' salaries in the private sector, amid concerns it is antagonizing the big businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy. The Socialist government imposed limits last year on executive pay at state-run companies, and pledged to do the same in the private sector. Pierre Moscovici ...
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Pastore committed to Paris Saint-Germain project
Javier Pastore has committed himself to Paris Saint-Germain regardless of whether coach Carlo Ancelotti remains with the Ligue 1 ...
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Williams to face Tatishvili in 1st round of French
PARIS (AP) -- Serena Williams will begin her bid for a second French Open championship and 16th Grand Slam title overall by facing 83rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili in the first ...
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The Immigrant Cannes Review
Ryan Gosling reunites with his "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn in this bloodbath set in the Bangkok underworld, which premieres in the Cannes ...
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Cannes Rocked by Another High-Profile Jewelry Heist
The Cannes film festival has been hit by yet another suspected high-profile theft, after a diamond necklace worth $2.6 million (2 million euros) vanished from a star-studded party, according to luxury jeweler De ...
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Photos An Exclusive Look into the Dutch Chef Andrew Carmellini’s Gourmet French Vacation
A hyperactive child, Andrew Carmellini once told a reporter that--to keep him busy--his mother used to give him polenta and measuring spoons. "She said it was the only thing that would calm me down." That unyielding energy lasted into Carmellini's adult years, taking him from cooking school to a gig making meals for New York's governor Mario Cuomo, to a nomadic voyage across ...
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Something in the Air A wispy but likeable look at France post-1968
, Assayas has been at the top of his game, in firm command of the material. Here, although the period details are superbly etched, he seems too close to his characters to form the judgments need to create any real dramatic tension. And an overdose of sympathy makes for a wispy picture, likeable certainly but lacking in crispness and ...
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Christine Lagardes future at IMF in balance over arbitration payment
Christine Lagarde’s future as International Monetary Fund chief hung in the balance today as a Paris court grilled her over a 403 million-euro state payout to a disgraced tycoon while she was French finance ...
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Cannes Film Festival 2013 The Ultimate Gold Collection Fashion Show
Alessandra Ambrosio, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Liberty Ross starred in the gold-themed catwalk show styled by Carine Roitfeld as part of the 20th Cinema Against AIDS to benefit amfAR in ...
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JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with All Is Lost
Actor Robert Redford, left, and director J.C. Chandor pose for photographers during a photo call for the film All Is Lost at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois ...
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Mehriban Aliyeva holds meetings in National Assembly and Senate of France
On 23 May, the First Lady of Azerbaijan, head of the working group on Azerbaijan-French inter-parliamentary relations Mehriban Aliyeva held several meetings in the National Assembly and the Senate of France. According to Azertag, in particular, Mehriban Aliyeva met with the head of the Commission for European Affairs of the National Assembly of France Daniel Oroire. The sides exchanged views ...
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Nargiz Pashayeva awarded French Order of Academic Palms - PHOTOS
Baku has hosted a presentation of French Order of Academic Palms of officer's degree to the rector of the Baku branch of Moscow State University (MSU), PhD, Professor Nargiz Pashayeva. The ceremony held at the French Embassy in Azerbaijan was attended by Head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's Department on Humanitarian Policy Fatma Abdullazade, Education Minister ...
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French Open Tennis Nadal can become first man to win title eight times
Sports News: Paris: Having pulled clear of Bjorn Borg's record of six wins at Roland Garros with a seventh championship in 2012, the 26-year-old Rafael Nadal has already confounded the critics who had written him off during a seventh-month injury ...
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Monsieur Popular For nearly two decades French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences - and critics - in a wide variety of films. And hes set to do it again in a new retro romcom. Tara Brady met him
You have to remind yourself that Romain Duris is closing in on 40 and that later today, he'll return home to La Bastille to be with his actor partner, Olivia Bonhamy, and the couple's four-year-old son, Luigi. He has dressed down, in jeans, and his artfully messy, dark hair makes one think in style section bytes such as "campus chic" and not of phrases such as ...
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French Court Will Keep Questioning Lagarde
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde is to face a second day of questioning on Friday in a French court over her role in a large payout to a businessman in 2008, when she was ...
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Shirley Bassey urges Cannes Festival luminaries to pull out their Goldfingers at Aids fundraiser
With an apt rendition of "Goldfinger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for Aids ...
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French business confidence lowest since Aug 2009
manufacturing sector rose to 92 from 88 in April, beating economists' expectations for a reading of 89. Though the index remained well below its long-term average of 100, the rise showed confidence in the sector at its highest since February, suggesting the worst may be over for the long-suffering industrial sector. But INSEE's broader indicator of overall business confidence, ...
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Paris has one of the largest and most emulated bike-sharing systems in the world
Paris is becoming ever more eco-friendly with bike-sharing becoming the major fad of daily commuters and public transport users. The system is so popular, major expansion plans have been announced.
Paris is already home to the largest bicycle-sharing system in the world, but the corporation set up to manage the city’s most eco-friendly form of public transport, Velib, has extensive expansion plans for the network, which is also one of the most copied in the world. Read more
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